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The Best Hand

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Say," said 5he drug clerk to hia friend at tho soda water fountain, "I ran against a play last night thafc made me thiiik that I was the unluckiest man that ever drew a card. " "Whatwas it?" asked the man at the fountain. "Why, I had au ace full beat by another full. I'll tell yon how it happened. You know we have a quiet little game over here on Dearborn street nearly evcry Saturtlay night. Well, last night we got into a five hauded game. There were Julius, a chattel mortgage man, in whose office we were playing; a real estáte man, a clerk for a bicycle íirm, a lawyer aud myself. Well, it waa :i KmaLl game - 2 cent aute and a 50 cent limit. Along about 12 o'clock I opened the pot au a pair of aces. The lawyer raised me half a dollar, and Julius stood the raise. Of course I had to stand it too. I waa the first to draw carda. J drew three cards. I thought I was pretty lucky when I picked up au ace and a pair of tens, makiug me art ace full. The lawyer, who had raiscd me on three queens, drew down to his hand and caugbt a pair of sevens, which made him a queen full. Juliua asked for one card and made a spade flush. "Well, I bet a check on the go, the lawyer raised me another half dollar, Julius called the raise and I raised back. We raised each other till we got about $7 in the pot. Just then the jauitor of the building appeared on the scène. He had been out attending a wedding and happened in at this rather unseasonable hour. He was pretty well' loaded with some kind of Soandinayian wine. He was good and ugly. It was a great surprise to hiru to see a game of cards going on in the building over which he had control, and he kuew tliat if the facts ever carne to the ears of the owner of the building there would be a janitor looking for a job. ' 'Now, what do you suppose that fellow did? Why, he just walked over to that table, kicked it over and sent the cards and chips flying in all directions. Then he tola us to get out, aiici to do U quickly; that he wonld cali the pólice and have us pinched. "We got out aud hunted up a small room in a hotel to continue the game. When we got settled down agaiu, I made a kick for the pot on the last hand. I told the boys that I had an ace full and that there wasn't another f uil could beat it. But old Julius spoke up and said: "Oh, yes, there was. Vat do

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier